Do honey #bees adjust their metabolic rate depending on the air temperature? Some thought not but others thought they did. Now Jordan Glass & Jon Harrison show that the bees do adjust their metabolic rates to ensure that their #muscles always run smoothly
An international team of scientists - including a research team from UC Santa Cruz - have discovered first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell!
The organelle is the fourth example in history of primary endosymbiosis — the process by which a prokaryotic cell is engulfed by a eukaryotic cell and evolves beyond symbiosis into an organelle.
As the first of its kind, this discovery is one for the textbooks.
Mitochondria and two types of chloroplasts are formerly independent organisms that have adapted or been coopted to live inside cells as organelles. Now a fourth such endosymbiont has been discovered: a nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine cyanobacterium.
“The team found that a school of #fish moving together in just the right way was stunningly effective at #noise reduction: A school of seven fish sounded like a single fish.
😲 Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community.
We blink thousands of times per day, mostly without even noticing it. Could the function improve our vision? A new study applied high-resolution tracking to investigate. Science Alert tells us what it revealed. https://flip.it/tLkkC4 #Science#Health#Biology#Eyes
They’re not a plant and not an animal. Fungi may seem alien, but they’re fundamental to the existence of life on Earth. It’s “Fungi Fear” on Big Picture Science.
Veritasium comment - "I realized that even what I thought of as the ‘safe path’ was uncertain so I may as well go after what I truly want. That led me here. [science communication on his youtube channel]"